Showing posts with label Mingle All the Way. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mingle All the Way. Show all posts

Friday, 5 December 2014

Stampin' Up! Bright Christmas Cards


I'm sharing some Christmas Cards I made for a special order. My client knew exactly which colours she wanted for the different designs she'd chosen. I thought it would be very challenging and yet, once I made a start, they came together very easily.

It was based on this card , which I had cased (copied and shared) from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue, way back in October. The stamp sets used were Many Merry Stars and Mingle All The Way. It is amazing how a change of colour scheme can alter the card so much.

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I do actually need to make a start on my own Christmas cards - maybe this weekend.

Cheers
Rachel

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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Happy Holidays!

This sketch from Sunday Stamps is such a cutie. It would have been fun to use the Tape It! stamp set and Polaroid frame but that seemed far too obvious, and too easy. I began by pulling Tap, Tap, Tap from my shelf, and stamped the typewriter onto a Chalk Talk tag. I liked it, but it wasn't developing the way I'd imagined, so I've put that away for another day.


I scrolled through some more challenges and found the colour challenge at The Paper Players. I had already stamped on Whisper White before I registered that it was actually supposed to be Very Vanilla, and I'm sure it would have looked lovely, but since I wanted to use the snowflake from Frosted Sequins, the white works better.
One of the four borders in Bordering Blooms has been stamped three times across the middle of the Cherry Cobbler layer. Mingle All the Way has some great Christmas tags and this one is my favourite. I love all the different fonts and it cuts beautifully with the Banners Framelits. They are in the Weekly Deals this week! All in all, this is a quick Christmas card.

We are heading toward our summer break at Christmas, and there is only 5½ weeks of school left! Also means there's not too long till Christmas itself....have you made many cards?

Thanks for looking
Rachel







Saturday, 25 October 2014

Mingle All The Way FMS#159

Many Merry Stars arrived in my hot, little hands this week, so it's getting a bit of a workout at the moment. Paired with Mingle All The Way and using the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, it all just came together beautifully.

It took two tries to find the Circle Framelit that suits the sentiment best - it's the fifth one from the centre and the Starburst Framelit to surround so perfectly is the third one from the centre. That makes the greeting rather large, but after all, the sentiment is really the most important part of the card, isn't it?

I really like this sketch, there are so many different ways to interpret it, and if you check out the gallery, on Freshly Made Sketches blog, you'll see what I mean. Those girls rock at sketches!!!





















I have something else to share with you too. My downline came over on Friday for a little bit of stamping fun. She doesn't have Many Merry Stars yet, so was happily stamping away with it, when she decided that the elongated star from the stamp set would fit the tree punch, which she has, but I don't. Obviously she took some images home to play about with, and sure enough - a perfect fit!!

Have a great weekend, won't you?
Cheers,
Rachel

Friday, 24 October 2014

Happy Holiday Cheer CTC#13

Here we are back with another challenge in CASE-ing The Catty. Weren't the entries over the last fortnight for gift bags and boxes inspirational? I love to see what others do with the same supplies that I have. This week we are featuring Christmas cards. I've made my Christmas cards for years, even before I came to Stampin' Up!®. Originally, I only made them for a very select group of people I knew would appreciate them, but I never buy Christmas cards now, they're always handmade.
After an evening stroll with my husband, I came home full of inspiration to make this Christmas card.

Those who know me well, always expect a Christmas card in shades of blue, and I haven't decided yet what the design for the bulk card will be this year, but this one just might be in there with a shot!
There's a new Christmas supplement from Stampin' Up!® out now, and I received a shipment a few days ago, so I used Many Merry Stars instead of the Endless Wishes I'd been planning. Both are super-lovely stamp sets, but I wanted to share this one with you before it disappears. The items on this supplement will NOT be carried over, once they're gone, they're gone! Many Merry Stars is particularly adaptable as the little stars inside the larger outlines are all separate pieces, so you can use them together - or not, as you choose. I like the two large outlines for birthday cards too.
The colours I've used are Soft Sky, Blushing Bride, Blackberry Bliss and Wisteria Wonder.

Since the idea of this challenge is CASE-ing The Catty, I was CASE-ing this halloween card on page 46 of the Holiday Catalogue. I liked the way the leaves were layered quite close together toward the bottom of the white panel, gradually thinning out about half way up. I liked the tag they used, but substituted a banner, and I was really impressed with the panel being all askew. It gave the card a novel look I thought, and I will use that again.




The tag is from a stamp set from the Holiday Catalogue, Mingle All The Way. Even though the Thanksgiving tag and the halloween tags aren't a lot of use to us in Australia, the three Christmas tags are so super special that they make up for it! You can see details in the links below and those links will take you directly to the item in my online store.



Cheers,
Rachel